Mamata Banerjee has announced a new programme at the micro level to help people register their names for various welfare schemes of the Bengal government if they are left out of the benefits even after multiple editions of Duare ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Birbhum district administration on Tuesday stopped an “illegal” construction that was being carried out in Santiniketan allegedly by encroaching on the bank of a river that was named Kopai by Rabindranath Tagore. A source alleged that a Calcutta-based ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphA 75-year-old marginal farmer has been trampled to death by a wild elephant that was standing in his courtyard as soon as he came out of his home in a village in Bankura's Barjora.A forest department officer said a ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphBengal irrigation minister Partha Bhowmik on Tuesday said the Teesta had changed its course at eight locations in the state following the glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) on the South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim on October 4 last year.“The ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa-led Gorkhaland Territorial Administration has decided to hold a three-day rural festival on his arch-rival Bimal Gurung’s turf at Jamuni in Darjeeling, which many believe is an attempt by the GTA chief executive to gradually increase his influence ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Anand Vihar-bound Rajdhani Express from Agartala stopped at Malda Town station for the first time on Tuesday, much to the elation of residents of Malda and the neighbouring districts.Residents of Malda have been demanding for years that they ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Border Security Force (BSF) posted on the India-Bangladesh border intercepted five trucks and seized 240 buffaloes which were allegedly being transported illegally in Jalpaiguri district on Monday.Fourteen persons, who were on the trucks, have been arrested.Sources said the ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphA sub-inspector of police died in a road accident in Jalpaiguri on Tuesday morning while he was trying to save a dog that had come in front of his two-wheeler.Although he was rushed to hospital by one of his ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Border Security Force (BSF) posted on the India-Bangladesh border intercepted five trucks and seized 240 buffaloes which were allegedly being transported illegally in Jalpaiguri district on Monday.Fourteen persons, who were on the trucks, have been arrested.Sources said the ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphA 75-year-old marginal farmer has been trampled to death by a wild elephant that was standing in his courtyard as soon as he came out of his home in a village in Bankura's Barjora.A forest department officer said a ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Anand Vihar-bound Rajdhani Express from Agartala stopped at Malda Town station for the first time on Tuesday, much to the elation of residents of Malda and the neighbouring districts.Residents of Malda have been demanding for years that they ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphBengal irrigation minister Partha Bhowmik on Tuesday said the Teesta had changed its course at eight locations in the state following the glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) on the South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim on October 4 last year.“The ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphAnit Thapa-led Gorkhaland Territorial Administration has decided to hold a three-day rural festival on his arch-rival Bimal Gurung’s turf at Jamuni in Darjeeling, which many believe is an attempt by the GTA chief executive to gradually increase his influence ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Birbhum district administration on Tuesday stopped an “illegal” construction that was being carried out in Santiniketan allegedly by encroaching on the bank of a river that was named Kopai by Rabindranath Tagore. A source alleged that a Calcutta-based ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphA senior official of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) visited a couple of locations in Siliguri on Monday to address local issues such as the demand for an overbridge on railway tracks and lack of maintenance at a level ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphFerry services from Sagar Island in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district to Kachuberia were suspended on Tuesday due to dense fog causing inconvenience to pilgrims returning after the holy dip at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Tuesday that she will lead a 'rally for harmony' with people of all religions in Calcutta on January 22 amid the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya.Banerjee, the chief of the ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphA ferry carrying around 350 pilgrims returning from the Gangasagar mela got stuck in a sandbar in the river Muriganga in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district while navigating through dense fog on Tuesday, officials said.The ferry was coming ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee will visit the Kalighat temple and offer puja on Monday, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the consecration ceremony of the new Ram temple at Ayodhya over 900km from here. "I will ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Tea Board of India held a meeting on Monday to discuss dates of factory closure for the next winter season, evoking multiple responses from tea stakeholders.Over the past few years, the board has been stipulating the last and ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphThe Border Roads Organisation (BRO), which functions under the defence ministry, has set a record of sorts by putting up a bridge over the Teesta river in Sikkim’s Mangan in less than three months.The 400-foot-long Bailey bridge connects two ...
17 January 2024 TelegraphA BJP-backed outfit will organise a music and folk festival on January 20 at Princep Ghat here to connect with Bengal's cultural space that largely remains outside the ambit of the saffron camp.The event's main patron is BJP MLA ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal administration is all set to regularise more than 500 thatched houses built on encroached government land in ward 109 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), but is in a dilemma on what to do with over 1,000 ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Border Security Force (BSF) posted at the India-Bangladesh border in north Bengal nabbed three Bangladeshis from a home in North Dinajpur district on Sunday night.Those apprehended are Mohd Inul of Dinajpur district of Bangladesh, his wife, and another ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe state government will soon issue a notification to constitute the new Dhupguri subdivision in Jalpaiguri district, Nirmal Chandra Roy, the local MLA, said on Monday.The administration had convened a meeting on Monday to discuss the formation of the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphScamsters are misusing the ease of online payment to trick hotel and homestay owners in Darjeeling hills of their money.A hotel owner recounted an instance: “Late at night, a person called up my front office and said he had ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Tea Board of India held a meeting on Monday to discuss dates of factory closure for the next winter season, evoking multiple responses from tea stakeholders.Over the past few years, the board has been stipulating the last and ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphNearly one crore pilgrims from across the country attended the Gangasagar Mela and took a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on Makar Sankranti early Monday, a senior official said.Traditionally, every year ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe board of administrators (BoA) of Kurseong municipality has decided to make the hill town a “zero waste” area.Subhash Pradhan, the vice-chairman of the BoA, said as a part of the initiative, the board had decided that from next ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Border Security Force (BSF) posted at the India-Bangladesh border in north Bengal nabbed three Bangladeshis from a home in North Dinajpur district on Sunday night.Those apprehended are Mohd Inul of Dinajpur district of Bangladesh, his wife, and another ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe board of administrators (BoA) of Kurseong municipality has decided to make the hill town a “zero waste” area.Subhash Pradhan, the vice-chairman of the BoA, said as a part of the initiative, the board had decided that from next ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal administration is all set to regularise more than 500 thatched houses built on encroached government land in ward 109 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), but is in a dilemma on what to do with over 1,000 ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe state government will soon issue a notification to constitute the new Dhupguri subdivision in Jalpaiguri district, Nirmal Chandra Roy, the local MLA, said on Monday.The administration had convened a meeting on Monday to discuss the formation of the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphA BJP-backed outfit will organise a music and folk festival on January 20 at Princep Ghat here to connect with Bengal's cultural space that largely remains outside the ambit of the saffron camp.The event's main patron is BJP MLA ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe financial bid for the civil construction of the new terminal building and allied infrastructure at the Bagdogra airport has been approved by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). After this, work is likely to begin soon at the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphLakhs of pilgrims from across the country took the holy dip at the confluence of the river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in the wee hours Monday, a senior official of the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphDense fog disrupted ferry services to Gangasagar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for about six hours on Monday, according to a police officer.On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, lakhs of pilgrims are flocking to Gangasagar to take ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate on Monday raided several premises linked to an arrested TMC leader and his associates in connection with its probe into the alleged ration distribution scam in West Bengal.ED teams went to four premises in central Kolkata ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Meteorological Department forecast rain in most districts of West Bengal, including Kolkata, from Wednesday.Cold wave conditions gripped the western district of Purulia, which recorded a minimum temperature of 6.1 degrees Celsius on Monday morning, six degrees below normal, ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphIn a move towards prioritising mental health on educational campuses, 11 top universities in West Bengal signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 'The Art of Living' foundation on National Youth Day. The MOU is expected to benefit over ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphLakhs of pilgrims from across the country took a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on Makar Sankranti early Monday, a senior official said.Traditionally, every year during Makar Sankranti, lakhs of devotees ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP is finding it difficult to identify 12 to 14 female candidates for the 42 parliamentary seats of the state, aligning with the central BJP's initiative to have around one-third of women candidates in most states for ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphLakhs of pilgrims from across the country took the holy dip at the confluence of the river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in the wee hours Monday, a senior official of the ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphDense fog disrupted ferry services to Gangasagar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for about six hours on Monday, according to a police officer.On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, lakhs of pilgrims are flocking to Gangasagar to take ...
16 January 2024 TelegraphNearly 65 lakh pilgrims from across the nation have visited Gangasagar and taken a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga River and the Bay of Bengal so far this year, West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas said.Heavy security ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bangladesh government has given the go-ahead for the completion of the Bangladesh Bhavana museum in Santiniketan following Sheikh Hasina’s election victory.Bangladesh Bhavana was inaugurated on the Visva-Bharati campus in 2018 but its museum has remained a makeshift one.Bangladesh ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal BJP is finding it difficult to identify 12 to 14 female candidates for the 42 parliamentary seats of the state, aligning with the central BJP's initiative to have around one-third of women candidates in most states for ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe state government has placed floating boom barriers along the coastline from Beach-1 to Beach-6 of Gangasagar to collect flowers littered by the pilgrims after offering prayers to the water during the holy dip on the occasion of Makar ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphDistricts in south Bengal are shivering in mid-January, as Purulia at a minimum temperature of 6.5°C was as cold as Darjeeling on Sunday, and Bankura, Birbhum and West Burdwan were among places where the Celsius slid below 10 degrees.The ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA rare and elusive bear — the Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) — has been sighted in Sikkim, making it the first confirmed record of the animal being sighted in India according to sources in the Sikkim forest ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA 36-year-old man and his eight-year-old son were killed after their scooter was hit by a truck following which they were run over by several vehicles in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said.The deceased man's wife, who was also ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTwo more persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with an attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5, taking the number of arrests in the case to four, a senior police officer said.The ED has ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphDistricts in south Bengal are shivering in mid-January, as Purulia at a minimum temperature of 6.5°C was as cold as Darjeeling on Sunday, and Bankura, Birbhum and West Burdwan were among places where the Celsius slid below 10 degrees.The ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe state government has placed floating boom barriers along the coastline from Beach-1 to Beach-6 of Gangasagar to collect flowers littered by the pilgrims after offering prayers to the water during the holy dip on the occasion of Makar ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA rare and elusive bear — the Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) — has been sighted in Sikkim, making it the first confirmed record of the animal being sighted in India according to sources in the Sikkim forest ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe District Primary School Council (DPSC) of the Siliguri educational district has managed to maintain a steady trend of enrollment over the past couple of years at a time when state-aided primary schools are shutting because of paucity of ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphA 36-year-old man and his eight-year-old son were killed after their scooter was hit by a truck following which they were run over by several vehicles in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said.The deceased man's wife, who was also ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTight security measures have been put in place at Gangasagar Mela for Makar Sankranti, a senior minister said.State Power and Sports Minister Aroop Biswas said 45 lakh pilgrims have taken a holy dip at Gangasagar from January 8 to ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTwo more persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with an attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5, taking the number of arrests in the case to four, a senior police officer said.The ED has ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTwo pilgrims were evacuated from the Gangasagar Mela by an air ambulance after they were taken ill and admitted to MR Bangur Hospital in Tollygunge here on Friday.Senior officers said Sumitra Devi, 55, from Sitamarhi in Bihar, was waiting ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has set up a team comprising officials from four departments — finance, panchayat and rural development, education and health — for talks with the Centre over the release of funds but Nabanna is yet to hear ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphTight security measures have been put in place at Gangasagar Mela for Makar Sankranti, a senior minister said.State Power and Sports Minister Aroop Biswas said 45 lakh pilgrims have taken a holy dip at Gangasagar from January 8 to ...
15 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has set up a team comprising officials from four departments — finance, panchayat and rural development, education and health — for talks with the Centre over the release of funds but Nabanna is yet to hear ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThree sadhus travelling by car to Gangasagar from Uttar Pradesh were allegedly beaten up by a mob and their vehicle vandalised at a village in Purulia on Thursday on the suspicion that they were child-lifters.The incident occurred at Gaurangdi ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphTwo pilgrims were evacuated from the Gangasagar Mela by an air ambulance after they were taken ill and admitted to MR Bangur Hospital in Tollygunge here on Friday.Senior officers said Sumitra Devi, 55, from Sitamarhi in Bihar, was waiting ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphAjoy Edwards, the president of Hamro Party, left for Manipur capital Imphal on Saturday, to participate in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that is set to start from Manipur on Sunday. Rahul's Nyay Yatra aims to cover a ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphCongress leaders in north Bengal have started the groundwork to make the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra — a march by party leader Rahul Gandhi from Manipur to Mumbai — a success.The party is also banking on the march to ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphDistrict INTTUC leader in Jalpaiguri said on Saturday that the new company set to take over the two plants of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, at Raninagar should engage all its existing workers ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphUnion information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur, in the state capital on Saturday, said the law and order in Bengal has reached a point that even Enforcement Directorate officials face attack when they go to investigate cases of corruption.Thakur ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThe dip in mercury in the sub-Himalayan region in the past few days has prompted the authorities of the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, to make arrangements for the animals so that they can keep themselves ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThe dip in mercury in the sub-Himalayan region in the past few days has prompted the authorities of the Bengal Safari Park, on the outskirts of Siliguri, to make arrangements for the animals so that they can keep themselves ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphDistrict INTTUC leader in Jalpaiguri said on Saturday that the new company set to take over the two plants of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, at Raninagar should engage all its existing workers ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphUnion information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur, in the state capital on Saturday, said the law and order in Bengal has reached a point that even Enforcement Directorate officials face attack when they go to investigate cases of corruption.Thakur ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphCongress leaders in north Bengal have started the groundwork to make the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra — a march by party leader Rahul Gandhi from Manipur to Mumbai — a success.The party is also banking on the march to ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphAjoy Edwards, the president of Hamro Party, left for Manipur capital Imphal on Saturday, to participate in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that is set to start from Manipur on Sunday. Rahul's Nyay Yatra aims to cover a ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThree sadhus travelling by car to Gangasagar from Uttar Pradesh were allegedly beaten up by a mob and their vehicle vandalised at a village in Purulia on Thursday on the suspicion that they were child-lifters.The incident occurred at Gaurangdi ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphEnforcement Directorate teams accompanied by huge central paramilitary contingents raided the houses of a minister, an MLA and a former municipal chairman, all from Trinamul, in connection with a probe into alleged corruption in municipal recruitments.Those raided were state ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphA purported video of three monks being attacked by a mob in West Bengal’s Purulia over suspicion that they were “kidnappers in disguise” has triggered a political row, with opposition BJP alleging collapse of law and order in the ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphTrinamul Congress, which is abstaining from the virtual meeting of the INDIA bloc, Saturday affirmed its commitment to it but said that Congress should recognise its limitations in Bengal and permit the party to spearhead the political battle ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphUnion minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday flayed the TMC government in West Bengal, alleging a severe breakdown in law and order and unprecedented levels of corruption in the state.Thakur's remarks come in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphProminent Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami aka Kishore was arrested from a hideout close to the Bengal-Jharkhand border on Thursday night. Police recovered Maoist literature and a 9mm pistol from Goswami, who was produced in court and remanded in police ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday raided the residences of a Trinamul Congress minister, MLA and a municipal councillor, triggering a bellicose exchange of words between Bengal’s ruling party and the BJP.Competitive homage from the two parties to Swami ...
14 January 2024 TelegraphProminent Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami aka Kishore was arrested from a hideout close to the Bengal-Jharkhand border on Thursday night. Police recovered Maoist literature and a 9mm pistol from Goswami, who was produced in court and remanded in police ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP on Friday activated its rank and file to observe the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda at each of the 77,000-odd polling booths across the state, an attempt by the party to use the ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphSome fishermen in Nadia, Hooghly and parts of East Burdwan districts are ferrying passengers in their small country boats across the Hooghly and Bhagirathi rivers amid fog-induced low visibility in violation of government norms and putting their lives and ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphBJP candidate Dorjee Tshering Lepcha was elected uncontested to the Rajya Sabha on Friday with support from the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), but the Sikkim state BJP president came down sharply on its ally SKM, saying it “had ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphAn Indian woman from North Dinajpur district was nabbed by the BSF at the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday afternoon with around 6.5 lakh Bangladeshi taka.Sources said the woman from Karandighi had been to Bangladesh. On Thursday afternoon, as she ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWork came to a halt at a tea estate in Jalpaiguri since Thursday as its workforce abstained from their duties after not being paid their wages and salaries.In Joypur tea estate, on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town, 683 workers ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA 40-year-old woman died of injuries after two groups of villagers clashed at a village in Cooch Behar on Thursday.Sources said the families of Shahjahan Mohammad and Jabeda Bibi, who reside in 25 Teesta Payasti village under Mekhliganj police ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphMembers of Dhupguri Nagarik Mancha, a citizens’ forum in Dhupguri town of Jalpaiguri district, launched a relay hunger strike on Friday, demanding an immediate notification from the state government for the creation of the new subdivision.“We want the state ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphAn Indian woman from North Dinajpur district was nabbed by the BSF at the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday afternoon with around 6.5 lakh Bangladeshi taka.Sources said the woman from Karandighi had been to Bangladesh. On Thursday afternoon, as she ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA 40-year-old woman died of injuries after two groups of villagers clashed at a village in Cooch Behar on Thursday.Sources said the families of Shahjahan Mohammad and Jabeda Bibi, who reside in 25 Teesta Payasti village under Mekhliganj police ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphMembers of Dhupguri Nagarik Mancha, a citizens’ forum in Dhupguri town of Jalpaiguri district, launched a relay hunger strike on Friday, demanding an immediate notification from the state government for the creation of the new subdivision.“We want the state ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphBJP candidate Dorjee Tshering Lepcha was elected uncontested to the Rajya Sabha on Friday with support from the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), but the Sikkim state BJP president came down sharply on its ally SKM, saying it “had ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphSome fishermen in Nadia, Hooghly and parts of East Burdwan districts are ferrying passengers in their small country boats across the Hooghly and Bhagirathi rivers amid fog-induced low visibility in violation of government norms and putting their lives and ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal unit of the BJP on Friday activated its rank and file to observe the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda at each of the 77,000-odd polling booths across the state, an attempt by the party to use the ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday said he was "convinced" by the explanation given by senior state government officials on the delay in arresting TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh for the attack on Enforcement Directorate officers during ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphThe 55th Garment Buyers and Sellers Meet of WBGMDA generated an estimated Rs 850 crore in business transactions in wholesale deals, an official said on Friday.Over 900 national and international brands participated in the three-day event of the West ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Police have arrested Maoist leader Sabyasachi Goswami alias Kishore carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head from Purulia district, a senior police officer said on Friday.Goswami was arrested Thursday night from a jungle near ...
13 January 2024 TelegraphA week after violence in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas left three ED officers injured from a mob attack, Bengal police make their first arrest.Early Friday morning, Nazat police arrested two suspects – Mehebur Mollah and Sukamal Sardar – for ...
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